News and Updates
Just Dig It! Practical Ideas for Adding Native Plants to Your Yard – Jan 18 Sat
Just Dig It! Practical Ideas for Adding Native Plants to Your Yard Saturday January 18, 2025 9 am to 2:30 pm Lewisville Thrive, Dogwood Room 1950 S Valley Pkwy. Lewisville, TX 75067 Keynote Speaker: Noted horticulture author Neil Diboll, owner of Prairie Nursery, consulting ecologist, and author of The Gardener’s Guide to Prairie Plants, will present via Zoom: Prairie Garden Design
LLELA volunteers are the best — our annual appreciation dinner
The annual appreciation dinner in November for LLELA volunteers was a blast. Joining the volunteers were various staff dignitaries, some bearing big news. But first the stats. From Erin Piper, City of Lewisville Outdoor Recreation Supervisor: 84 programs 960 participants 8242 hours of programming interacted, taught, and entertained 1906 children from the age of 18
Elm Fork Texas Master Naturalists Annual New Class Visit to LLELA
The Elm Fork Chapter Texas Master Naturalists’ new 2024 class made their annual field trip to LLELA. Marissa Shaw, Field Trip Coordinator, filed this report: What a wonderful day it was at LLELA yesterday. Our Class of TMN- EFC 2024 were very impressed! Your team pulled together and did a fabulous job of presenting LLELA
Welcome LLELA’s New Interpretative Park Ranger
There’s a new environmental educator at LLELA! And she’s a pelican! Well, maybe not. But interpretative park ranger Addy France is superb at getting kids excited about nature and the pelicans they might see on the Elm Fork. Please welcome Addy, who says “Speak for the trees and bees.” Photo by Sue Yost.
LLELA Open House – come have fun with us for free!
LLELA Open House Saturday, October 12, 2024 10 am to 2 pm 300 E. Jones St. Lewisville, TX 75057 Free admission and fun activities put on by the city of Lewisville! Take part in the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department Pollinator BioBlitz. Check out demonstrations and fun stuff at all trailheads. Special Mariposas monarch migration
Come Visit Us at LLELA
Photo by Daniel Koglin. Friends of LLELA invites you to Come Visit Us at LLELA! You’ll be glad you did Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area — LLELA 2600 acres of wildness below the lake dam. 201 E Jones St. at Kealy, Lewisville, TX 75057 Directions (Google maps can lead you astray) Trail, kayak, and camping
Create a beautiful roadside prairie at LLELA – donate at North Texas Giving Day!
Create an inviting roadside prairie at LLELA! Give through North Texas Giving Day until Thursday, September 19 Imagine the main road at Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area (LLELA) flanked with native wildflowers. What a greeting! With your North Texas Giving Day support, Friends of LLELA plans to turn the 1.5-mile expanse from the entrance to
LLELA Featured in Lewisville Public Library Talk
Friends of LLELA board member Amy Martin presented her popular talk, Wild Lands of Denton County, in June at the Lewisville Public Library. The talk extolls the potential of nature tourism in Denton County with LLELA serving as the anchor. The talk notes that three of the five largest nature parks and preserves in North
Hilti Helps Out at LLELA
In addition to regular volunteer workdays, LLELA hosts volunteer teams from area businesses and corporations. The construction supplies company Hilti sent several volunteers who looked impressive in their matching red shirts. They had such a great time and felt so good about their efforts they’ve asked to return! Drop us a message (mail to: richard.freiheit@unt.edu)
Trinity Forks NPSOT Hosts LLELA Presentation
Richard Freiheit, LLELA’s Conservation Manager & Associate Director, presented a very well received talk for the Trinity Forks chapter of Native Plant Society of Texas this spring. He detailed the mission and goals of restoration work at LLELA, explaining some of the techniques and methods used, and the crucial role of volunteers. The working relationship